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Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. The ambiguity of 4K, UHD and Ultra HD (Note we have always tried to be clear with the difference between DCI 4K and UltraHD resolutions) Forecast: US OTT … Read more
What They Say Sixteen-nine.net spotted that Unilumin in Brazil had posted some interesting data on exports of LED displays from China. It was originally posted on LinkedIn The data shows that Unilumin was the biggest exporter if the numbers from the brand with its ROE event specialist company and Lamp. As a single brand, Absen … Read more
What They Say Strategy Analytics said that it saw 8K TV sets reaching 70 million households by 2025, with only just under 350K being sold globally in 2020. The sales level should rise to more than 1 million this year and around 4 million by 2022. By the end of the period, the US will … Read more
Global 8K TV household adoption will begin to build momentum over the next few years, reaching 72 million households by 2025. Following a slower than expected 2020 when just under 350 thousand 8K TVs were sold globally, Strategy Analytics’ forecasting models indicate sales of more than 1 million 8K TVs in 2021 and around 4 … Read more
My second article from the HPA Tech Retreat is a little ‘down in the weeds’ of HDR and the talk I’m covering was given by Dr. Charles Poynton, whose book on digital video I read over twenty years ago and an independent expert on colour and video. His topic was ‘a definition of scene-referred’ video. … Read more
MediaTek and Samsung introduced the world’s first 8K QLED TV – the flagship Samsung 8K QLED Y21 – powered by MediaTek’s MT7921AU, delivering the fastest connectivity experiences through its cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6E capabilities. Following their announcement of the world’s first Wi-Fi 6 enabled 8K TV in 2020, MediaTek and Samsung are yet again driving the … Read more
Planar, a global leader in visualization technology, announced an expansion to the company’s portfolio of fine pitch LED display solutions with the release of the Planar® MGP Series. The new family of fine pitch LED video wall displays introduces affordable solutions that are suitable for replacing legacy display technology. Planar MGP Series makes fine pitch … Read more
What They Say The Wall St Journal had a round-up of recent announcements including a useful forecast for AR headsets from IDC. We recreated the chart from the data. One of the bits of news in an increasing level of activity was news from Niantic (the developers of Pokémon Go) which is developing a headset … Read more
What They Say Hologate VR, based in Germany and a developer of LBE VR, said that its number of users has now got back to 90K per week, which is the level of early 2020, before the impact of Covid-19. The firm said that one of its distributors in the US had seen ‘completely full’ … Read more
What They Say In the course of a recent correspondence with Ross Young of DSCC, he mentioned that sometimes we have referred to forecasts for foldable devices that are higher or different from those from his firm. He pointed out that you have to be careful to properly identify the difference between panels, set production … Read more
Sony announced that that pre-orders are opening now for the BRAVIA XR X90J 4K HDR Full Array LED TVs. The latest BRAVIA XR TVs to become available from Sony come equipped with the new Cognitive Processor XR™, which employs a completely new processing method going beyond conventional AI, designed to replicate the ways humans see … Read more
Joining Apple, Samsung, LG, XDisplay, PlayNitride, Facebook and others, newcomers are accelerating microLED patenting activity. OUTLINE: IP landscape:8900+ patents filed by close to 480 organizations now represent a cumulated total of 4093 families selected for the corpus in this study.40% (1637) of the 4093 patent families have been published in 2020 alone (81% over the … Read more
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